Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) recently spent some time at Vance AFB, Okla., making one of his routine visits to military facilities in Oklahoma, reports the Vance Airscoop. Inhofe is slated to become chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, should Republicans retain a majority after mid-term elections next month. At Vance, Inhofe said that he likes to visit state facilities every couple of months “just to be up on everything.” However, he noted that this visit offered his first opportunity to see Vance’s new family housing, which he called “most impressive.”
RTX’s Raytheon unit was able to “significantly” extend the range of the AIM-120 Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile using mostly software changes in experimental tests last year, expanding the reach and lethality of the standard U.S. dogfighting weapon, company officials said Sept. 15.
